THE PRIZE OF CALLS

AUTHORS:

Iñaki Vega and Paul Laka

THE COST OF MOBILE PHONES

• Mobile phones have changed our lives, but, what is the cost of that change?

• The cost can be mesured in rubbish or in contamination, but we are going to speak about money.

WHAT WILL WE TALK ABOUT

• We will compare costs of SMS and calls roaming in different countries in Europe.

• We will talk about the prices of calls made to and recieved from abroad and how they have developed over the years.

• We will compare national calls with international calls.

COMPARING SMS-s AND CALLS

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Cyprus France Greece Ireland

SMS

Calls

EUROTARIFF

• This are the development of the costs of calls made and received from abroad in Spain.

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Summer 2007 Summer 2008 Summer 2009

Mobile calls madeabroadMobile calls receivedabroad

COMPARING SMS-s AND CALLS IN BASQUE

COUNTRYSMS CALLS

VODAFONE 0.15 euros 0.14 euros

TELEFONICA

(MOVISTAR)

0.17 euros 0.16 euros

ORANGE 0.15 euros 0.13 euros